It’s Melbourne’s body in the barrel case — 70-year-old grandmother Lucia Amenta found curled in a foetal position in a barrel dumped in a Coburg lake. Ten years on, the case remains tantalisingly close to being solved.
Adelaide schoolteacher Anthea Bradshaw-Hall was murdered in Brunei 25 years ago. Despite their remarkable efforts, her grieving family fear her killer will never be brought to justice.
Homicide detectives will review the cold case murders of Sydney mothers Eva Webel and Denise Govendir, both of whom were bashed and killed in their homes 15 years apart. Their deaths were investigated in a Sunday Telegraph podcast series, The Alibi.
The unsolved execution of standover man Richard Mladenich in a seedy St Kilda motel shook Melbourne’s underworld nearly two decades ago. And police have revealed the unlikely murder weapon in the fresh push to find his killer.
THE lawyer who helped gain an inquest and eventual justice for the Morcombes has joined the fight for truth in another controversial case.
WHEN the semi-naked bodies of two illicit lovers were found in suburban scrub after a New Year’s Eve tryst, it kicked off one of the nation’s most baffling murder mysteries. Five decades on, it remains unsolved.
SOMEBODY stabbed two teenagers to death and left their bodies at a Victorian rest stop. But does a new witness raise the awful possiblity there was a third victim of this horrific crime? ANDREW RULE PODCAST
HE killed people, but he didn’t kill Linda Reed. That was Craig McConnell’s defence when he was falsely accused of her murder in 1986. He has spoken out after a man was arrested for Ms Reed’s killing this week.
THE author of an anonymous letter about the murder of Victorian mother-of-three Kath Bergamin is tormented by guilt, police say, as they urge the person to come forward.
A MAN accused of abducting and killing a 21-year-old Gold Coast woman in a random attack almost 40 years ago only came to the attention of investigators recently, police say.
PAUL Warren is “tortured every day” by the belief 20-year-old Elly Rose was killed. Forensics experts from three countries haven’t given him answers so now he will travel to Africa to find the truth for himself.
WHEN a businessman was viciously murdered at an exclusive hotel, police described the killer as someone “you would look at”. So why has he never been caught?
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